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An amazing Bed and Breakfast on the Helford River, Cornwall, UK
All booking Enquiries Please E-Mail: info@trelowarren.cc  or
tel: 01326 221366

Why not come and have a relaxing break with us?
Our bed and breakfast rates start from £25 per person, per night so why not pay us a visit.

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Trelowarren is an historical Cornish Manor House and 1,000 acre Estate leading down to the Helford river.

Stunningly beautiful Bedrooms

wp62ce9d59.jpgThe chapel and the part of house shown in this photo is currently held “in trust” by a registered charity. The remainder of the house is private, and owned by the Vyvyan family who have lived here since the early 1400s.

Trelowarren is probably one of Corwall's most historic estates. It is being carefully restored to balance conservation, private ownership and living history.This is a traditional working estate, run by the same family for 600 years.

TARIFF (from)
Overnight stay to include continental type breakfast £25 p.p.p.n.
Half Board £ 40.00 p.p.p.n
Full Board £55.00 p.p.p.n

These prices are all subject to availability and further information

Special concessions may be available for those in full time ministry in need of a retreat or just a break away from it all.

Please do not hesitate to call and discuss your needs.

All booking enquiries please email: info@trelowarren.cc or
tel: 01326 221366

HOW TO FIND US . . . . BY CARFrom Helston follow signs to the Lizard (A3083) passing RNAS Culdrose on your left. At the next roundabout take the first exit on your left, signposted Gweek, Mawgan and St Keverne (B3293). Follow this road for about 1.5 miles. When arriving at the next roundabout continue straight on signed B3293, St Keverne. Continue few hundred yards passing the school on the left. TRELOWARREN entrance is immediately after the school. Continue down lane and on to estate past the wooden hut. The driveway is approx 1 1/2 miles long. After 2nd cattle grid go straight ahead through large pillars continue straight on through smaller pillars the house will then appear on your left.

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Kynance Cove

The Trelowarren Estate

Estates and their owners come and go, but Trelowarren can point to 1,000 years of recorded history, 600 of them in the Vyvyan family who run it today.

For Sir Ferrers, the current owner, it remains a work in progress. "Trelowarren is living history, not corporate heritage," he says. "We want to maintain the feel of a traditional working estate that people can share with us."

There is a lot to share: 1,000 acres of woodland, pasture, wildlife, Rococo gardens and walks leading on to the Goonhilly Downs, south to the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI's) on The Lizard, and north-west to the boating paradise of the Helford River.

Arts, crafts, scenic walks and great food - all on site

Though there are some of the most dramatic beaches and attractions in Cornwall on the doorstep, there is much to explore on site. The mysterious Halliggye Fogou - a neolithic, vaulted chamber below an Iron Age Hill Fort; the Pleasure Grounds, first laid out by Dionysus Williams in 1750 and now being restored; the Cornwall Crafts Association's main exhibition gallery and permanent display.

Trelowarren has its own superb restaurant, the New Yard, which uses fresh local ingredients for all its dishes. Breakfast patisseries are available from 10:30 am and wonderful lunches are served alfresco, with cream teas to follow an afternoon walk, a day on the beach or a voyage of exploration round the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, The Tate Gallery St Ives or further afield to The Eden Project.

A short siesta, or an hour spent gleaning ideas from the Vyvyans' notes on what to see or do tomorrow, and you should be about ready for the dinner menu and wine list lauded by Decanter and awarded two AA rosettes.

The Trelowarren Woodland Walk is justly famous. In the course of it, you can visit a Victorian folly, the highest point on The Lizard, an Iron Age Hill Fort, a river formed by the Ice Age and an 18th century garden.

Wooded walkThe walk is open year-round to timesharers and self-caterers staying with us, and to the visiting public between 1st April and 30th September. A leaflet is available from the Estate Office setting out the options. The main walk is about four miles (6.5km) long, but there are also shorter, circular walks of one and two miles (1.6 - 3.2km) and an "extension" to Tremayne Quay, on the Helford, which is 2.5 miles (4km) each way.

All the walks are varied and provide a wonderful mixed landscape of views, historic features, natural variety and more ordered planting - with the occasional bonus of rare wildlife. Specific points of interest include:

The Turret: A clever Victorian reworking of old stones to resemble part of a medieval fortification.

The Mount: Built with earth cleared to build a drive, again in the 19th century. The highest point on the peninsula.

The FogouThe Fogou: A Cornish mystery. A large underground chamber with a single, narrow entry beneath an Iron Age Hill Fort.

Ilex Avenue: So-called because it is the botanical name for the ancient Mediterranean oaks planted here in the 19th century.

Long Valley: Glorious views and an extraordinary collection of trees, foreign and native: Douglas Fir, Sitka Spruce, Lawson Cypress, Hemlock, Redwood and Radiata as well as Ash, Beech and Oak.

Tremayne Quay: Reached through beautiful National Trust woods and overlooking the sailing and fishing paradise of the Helford River.

Turret GatesThe Pleasure Garden: Dionysus Williams' clever use of contour and greenery to create a contemplative masterpiece. Now being restored on his original 18th century plan.

The Restoration Gates: The Vyvyans were staunch royalists in the Civil War and erected these Grade 1-listed gates to mark the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660.

The walks all end where they begin, at the Stable Yard, where you will find a plant nursery, pottery and weaving, the Cornwall Crafts Association gallery and of course, the New Yard Restaurant.

Having walked up an appetite, where better to satisfy it?

 

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